﻿SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF 

 THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY 



FIELD. — " The Cambridge Natural History series of volumes is one o 

 very great value to all students of biological science. The books are ne 

 intended for popular reading, but for utilisation by those who are desiroi 

 of making themselves thoroughly acquainted with the branches of zoology 01 

 which they treat." 



TIMES. — " There are very many, not only among educated people who 

 take an interest in science, but even among specialists, who will welcome a 

 work of reasonable compass and handy form containing a trustworthy treat- 

 ment of the various departments of Natural History by men who are familiar 

 with, and competent to deal with, the latest results of scientific researcb. 

 Altogether, to judge from this first volume, the Cambridge Natural History 

 promises to fulfil all the expectations that its prospectus holds out." 



ACADEMY. — "This great enterprise has now proceeded sufficiently far 

 to be regarded as an achievement. The editors have aimed very high, and 

 they have succeeded. . . . Well conceived, carefully co-ordinated, and 

 executed with the greatest detail and completeness, the Cambridge Natural 

 History is certain to rank high amongst those gigantic scientific works to 

 which, within the last half-century or so, the labours of so many experts, 

 each without hope of more glory than falls to a mere assistant, have 

 contributed." 



ATHENJEUM. — "The series certainly ought not to be restricted in its 

 circulation to lecturers and students only ; and, if the fortbcoming volumes 

 reach the standard of the one here under notice, the success of the enterprise 

 should be assured." 



Mr. F. G. AFLALO in COUNTRY LIFE.—" The editors will, on the 

 completion of the series, have the satisfaction of contemplating a work with 

 which, for thoroughness and interest, no other of recent appearance can 

 compare." 



KNOWLEDGE. — " If succeeding volumes are like this one, the 

 Cambridge Natural History will rank as one of the finest works on natural 

 history ever published." 



SCIENCE GOSSIP. — "Every library, school, and college in thecountiy 

 should possess this work, which is of the highest educational value." 



DAILY NEWS in a Review of Vol. X.— " A volume which, for the 

 interest of its contents and for its style and method of treatment, is not only 

 worthy of its predecessors, but may be regarded as one of the most successful 

 of a brilliant series." 



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